Caisse des Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale

What Caisse des Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale does

Caisse des Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale (CICPRM) is a French non-profit association (association loi 1901) founded in 1937 and approved by ministerial decree on November 3, 1937, to serve as the sole authorized statutory body for managing paid leave contributions for transport and related sectors across 21 departments in southern France (PACA, Occitanie, and Corse). The organization operates as a mandatory public service: companies with qualifying NAF codes in road freight transport (49.41 A/B/C, 49.42 Z), cargo handling (52.24 B), courier and express freight (52.29 A/B), cleaning (81.21 Z), and waste management (38.11 Z, 38.21 Z) are legally required to affiliate under Articles L3141-32 et s. of the Labor Code and D1325-1 et s. of the Transport Code.

CICPRM's core product is a suite of three secure web portals: an employee portal (salarie.cicprm.fr) for individual leave management, a member portal (adherent.cicprm.fr) for company contribution and declaration handling, and an affiliation portal (affiliation.cicprm.fr) for onboarding new companies. The organization processes employer wage declarations, collects mandatory contributions (percentage set by its board, rate not publicly disclosed), calculates vacation entitlements, and disburses indemnities to eligible employees. The technology stack is not publicly disclosed beyond OVH as web hosting provider.

The organization is supported by 11 permanent staff operating across two offices in Marseille and Nice, serving 3,800 member companies and 42,000 employees, managing 125,000 paid vacation days annually. Revenue flows from mandatory employer contributions calculated as a percentage of declared wages, making CICPRM a pass-through mutual entity rather than a profit-driven business. Governance is exercised through a board of directors elected from member companies, with Jean-Yves Astouin elected President in June 2023 and Patrick Astinot serving as Director since 2010. CICPRM's mandate was significantly expanded in 2019 via ministerial decree to cover 21 departments from Nice to Perpignan, following the 2012 absorption of the Var fund and 2013 absorption of the Alpes-Maritimes fund.

Name

Caisse des Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale

Legal name

Caisse Interprofessionnelle des Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale

Website

https://cicprm.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1937

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CICPRM is a French non-profit association founded in 1937 that serves as the sole statutory body managing mandatory paid leave contributions for transport, logistics, cleaning, and waste management companies across 21 departments in southern France, covering 3,800 member companies and 42,000 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marseille

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Mandatory employer contributions: Under Article D 1325-5 of the French Transport Code, employer contributions are determined as a percentage of wages paid to declared workers. The percentage is set by the board of directors. The organization's internal regulations specify contribution periods, payment methods, required documentation, and verification procedures for members.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CICPRM is a statutory non-profit association that manages mandatory paid leave contributions and indemnities for transport, logistics, handling, and cleaning sector companies across 21 departments in Southern France (PACA, Occitanie, Corsica). It collects employer contributions calculated as a percentage of declared wages, processes employee wage declarations, and disburses vacation indemnities to eligible employees through secure online portals, serving 3,800 member companies and 42,000 employees managing 125,000 paid vacation days annually.

Product overview

CICPRM is a public service organization (Association loi 1901) that manages paid leave for transport and related sector companies across 21 departments in southern France. The organization provides a unified platform consisting of three secure web portals: Espace Salariés for employees to manage their individual leave, Espace Adhérent for member companies to handle contributions and declarations, and Espace Affiliation for onboarding new companies. These portals are supported by administrative services including salary declaration processing, leave calculation, compliance monitoring, and customer service. The organization covers 3,800 companies and 42,000 employees across transport, logistics, handling, and cleaning sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Paid Leave Management Service (Congés Payés de la Région Méridionale) Core paid leave management service covering 21 departments across PACA, Occitanie, and Corsica regions. Manages employer contributions, employee wage declarations, paid leave calculations, compliance monitoring, and disbursement of vacation indemnities for transport, logistics, cargo handling, and cleaning sector companies.
• Espace Salariés (Employee Portal) Secure online portal for employees affiliated with member companies to manage their paid leave requests, view leave balance and history, and track vacation indemnity disbursements.
• Espace Adhérent (Member Portal) Secure online portal for affiliated member companies to manage their CICPRM affiliation, submit employee wage declarations, track contributions, and ensure compliance with paid leave regulations.
• Espace Affiliation (Affiliation Portal) Dedicated secure portal for companies in qualifying sectors to complete the affiliation process and join the CICPRM paid leave management system.

Quantifiable outcome

• Serves 3,800 member companies across 21 departments
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OVHminorOthersOVH serves as the web hosting provider for cicprm.fr, providing the technical infrastructure for the organization's website and online services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• URSSAF: French national agency that collects mandatory social-security contributions from employers. Operates at far greater scale than CICPRM and could plausibly absorb CICPRM's mandate under regulatory reform, making it both a comparable French contribution-collection body and a structural threat to CICPRM's independent status.
• AGIRC-ARRCO: French federated body managing mandatory complementary retirement contributions. Comparable to CICPRM as a sector-organized, mandatory-contribution, association-governed social-protection institution in France, though focused on retirement rather than paid leave.
• Pôle Emploi (France Travail): French national employment agency. While focused on unemployment benefits rather than paid leave, it is a state-mandated labor-administration body operating at scale across France, comparable in regulatory and operational model to CICPRM.

Regional players

• CNTR (Comité National du Transport Routier): National employers' organization representing road-transport companies. Shares CICPRM's transport-sector member base and overlapping NAF codes, and is a natural counterpart organization for the same constituency of French road-freight employers.

Direct peers

• Caisse des Congés Payés de la Région Parisienne: Sibling transport-sector paid-leave caisse covering the Paris region. Most directly comparable to CICPRM in mission (mandatory paid leave for transport NAF codes) and structure (association loi 1901 with ministerial approval), differing primarily by geography.
• Caisse des Congés Payés du BTP (now PRO BTP): French paid-leave and social-protection caisse covering the building and public-works sector. Operates the same statutory paid-leave management model as CICPRM but for BTP companies, making it a direct functional peer in the regulated congés payés ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Klesia: French social-protection group (retirement, health, prévoyance) serving corporate clients including transport employers. Adjacent to CICPRM in operating in the transport-sector social-protection space, but broader in scope and commercial in model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cicprm

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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